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...Guernsey gaffers believe that the cry "Haro!" is an abbreviation of "Ha, Rollo!" an appeal to Rollo, first Duke of Normandy. More probably it comes from Anglo-Saxon licra or hara, an exclamation intended to attract attention. At Irish county fairs hucksters still shout "Aral Aral" when displaying their wares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ha, Rollol | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

EVERY SOUL Is A CIRCUS-Vachel Lind-say-Macmillan ($2.75). "Now in the fiftieth year of my age comes my revolt. I come roaring forth with a book which is the opposite of little Rollo and little Lucy." Perhaps Poet Lindsay never said quite the same thing before, but the blatant tone of voice is unmistakably his. He is a hell-raiser whose hair is never brushed; like his latest book, he is "aggressive, however sinful and full of pride." Two good poems appear-one an old-style Lindsay chantey, "The Virginians Are Coming Again," and "Twenty Years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shout | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...like the Ten Commandments-all of them broken." For once, an all star company seemed as good as the sum of its parts and the play creaked seldom as it rolled rapidly across the stage. Among the stars were: Frances Starr, 42, Cecilia Loftus, 51, Jacob Ben-Ami, 38, Rollo Peters, 45, Helen Gahagan, 27, Georgette Cohan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 11, 1928 | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...Rollo Holliday, Harvard undergraduate, was found early yesterday in a shovel of coal in the Boston and Maine railroad yards in Somerville. He was in a state which was pronounced by an ambulance surgeon to boarder closely on torpor, but more experienced, if less technical, observers asserted that he was merely out. No further explanation of this term was offered. It was accepted without question by the police...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/12/1928 | See Source »

There will be a dinner before the lecture tomorrow, which will be attended by E. A. Weeks Jr. '22, Assistant Editor of the Atlantic Monthly, Theodor Morrison '23, who is also on the Atlantic Monthly staff, Rollo Walter Brown A.M. '05, biographer of Dean Briggs., D. W. Bailey '21, assistant to H. T. Parker '90, dramatic critie of the Boston Transcript, D. D. Pottiner '06, of the Harvard University Press, and D. T. McCord '21, Executive Secretary of the Harvard Fund...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHRISTOPHER MORLEY TO LECTURE TOMORROW | 12/14/1927 | See Source »

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